Friday, April 22, 2016

The day passed off quietly without a whimper. There were no tears, no protest, no recall of the tragedy or any demand for justice.

April 18 was the 40th anniversary of the Turkman gate killings--when poor Muslims of the area were shot dead, killed in cold blood during Emergency.

The incident had occurred in Delhi, the national capital. As Sanjay Gandhi was calling the shots and there was tight control over newspapers, it was foreign media [BBC] that broke the news of the atrocities, blood and gore.

Yet, the massacre, one of the worst in the national capital in India's history, has been forgotten. What happened at Turkman gate was so horrific that even today one shudders while recalling (or writing about) the incident.

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